Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
Release Date: Jan 1, 1943 Wide
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Average Rating: 2.4/5
User Ratings: 67
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A mad scientist turns a gorilla into a beautiful young woman in this well-made Universal potboiler, the first of three films featuring Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman. John Carradine stars as Dr. Sigmund Walters, whose Crestview Sanitarium witnesses strange and unsettling experiments. The doctor's newest scheme concerns Cheena (Ray "Crash" Corrigan), a female gorilla that he has stolen from the Whipple Circus. Injecting the ape with sex hormones obtained from Dorothy Colman (Martha Vickers), the
Jan 1, 1943 Wide
Aug 3, 1994
Cast
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Evelyn Ankers
Beth Colman -
Acquanetta
Paula Dupree -
John Carradine
Dr. Sigmund Walters -
Milburn Stone
Fred Mason -
Lloyd Corrigan
John Whippie -
Vince Barnett
Curley Barret -
Fay Helm
Miss Strand -
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Martha Vickers
Dorothy Colman -
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All Critics (7) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (3) | DVD (1)
Lovable but far-fetched hokum sci-fi horror film.
Not captivating.
A bad start to an even worse series of Ape Woman movies.
A silly Universal B-horror film, that is 60+minutes of corn.
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